Ecotourism: Conflict between conservation, recreation and tourism business

1. Ecotourism in one of important business for the country.
2. Specific locations need to be identified.
3. The areas need to be protected and conserved.
4. A complete information on flora & fauna needed.
5. Ecotourism is an expensive business for educated and rich society who know how to appreciate nature and willing to contribute for conservation.
6. All tourists need to be guided and all guides must be well trained and equip with knowledge on flora, fauna and ecology.
7. All facilities and systems must be well organise for its sustainability.

Masa Hadapan Negara Bermula Dari Sekolah - Guru Mendahului Zaman

Sebahagian daripada Guru-guru muda dari Sekolah Kebangsaan Seri Selangor, USJ Subang Jaya menjalani latihan di Hutan Simpan Air Hitam, Puchong sebagai makmal luar bilik darjah dalam P&P berkesan, menghayati alam sekitar dan biodiversity flora dan fauna.
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Bagaimana cara melaksanakannya?
1. Sediakan kurikulum mantap untuk masa hadapan dan dikemaskini dari masa kesemasa; apakah keperluan mereka semasa berumur 19-25 tahun bagi membina kerjaya dan menyumbang kepada keperluan negara.
2. Sediakan kemudahan lengkap mengikut kesesuaian dan keperluan masyarakat setempat mengikut peredaran masa.
3. Mempunyai guru-guru yang sesuai dengan kehendak kurikulum yang dibina bagi memenuhi keperluan masa hadapan negara. Perlaksanaan kurikulum mendahului keperluan semasa(sekiranya perlaksanaan mengikut keperluan semasa pelajar yang tamat belajar akan ketinggalan zaman)
4. Amalan di sekolah selama 11 tahun mampu membentuk keperibadian, personaliti, pendekatan dan cara berfikir, disiplin, budaya ilmu, budaya berfikir, budaya kreativiti dan innovatif dan lain-lain nilai baik rakyat masa hadapan yang mampu berdikari serta bersaing di peringkat dunia.
5.Bagi memenuhi keperluan negara masa hadapan dan memastikan segala perancangan kerajaan terlaksana program khas untuk guru-guru sangat diperlukan; misalnya, program latihan berterusan bagi memantapkan kualiti P&P (asas ilmu yang kuat, teknik, teknologi, ilmu khusus dan kepakaran), sistem pemantauan yang cekap, ganjaran yang setimpal, menghargai dan menghormati pada ilmuan.
6. Kumpulan pakar kurikulum yang berkualiti, dinamik dan berterusan meneliti, menganalisis dan memantau kesesuaian dan keberkesanan dalam perlaksanaan.
7. Kumpulan jurulatih perlaksanan kurikulum yang mantap dan setanding dengan kehebatan antarabangsa.
8. Kumpulan pakar dihormati dengan ganjaran dan kemudahan bekerja yang setimpal dengan kepakaran dan bidang mereka. Ini akan menggalakkan pembangunan sumber manusia mengikut kehendak dan keperluan negara.
9. Penyelidikan oleh profesor di universiti di hargai (dalam bentuk gran penyelidikan dan ganjaran).
10.Pembangunan sumber manusia berlaku apabila budaya menghargai ilmuan wujud dalam masyarakat.

Why soccer’s biggest stars failed to shine

Soccer’s superstar players never materialized here at the World Cup. The game’s best – Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Wayne Rooney, etc. – often failed to lift their play and, in turn, their teams, to a level this grand stage demands.
The conventional wisdom on why: They were too selfish, unable to adapt to the team concept of a national squad. Unlike the past, the stars weren’t selfish enough.
Time changes in life. In this time, the star player must be humble and supportive. And not just on the field, but in all parts of team life. Obviously all players know they need others to make them better in the game. Someone has to pass them the ball. Or receive a pass. But off the field, is one for all, all for one really the best concept?

HOW ABOUT US? INDIVIDUAL SKILLS OR TEAM WORK?

Frogs Ecology and Biodiversity Studies on UPM campus

(Jim and Rosy from Reading University England and Iman from Subang Jaya cathing frogs in UPM campus)
Even frogs can attract young scientists from Reading University to come to UPM. In UPM campus there were a secondary forest, oil palm, coconuts and rubber plantations, paddy field and open grass land before and support many species of frogs. Until now we still can observe many common frogs species. We are now searching them in case we can find a unique one. Frogs, birds and some mammals on campus might develop a new attraction to foreign students especially from England to do their final year project on tropical animals. Management of the university (UPM) should consider this as an important attraction or destination for Foreign students such as European and Japan or Korea for their summer programme or short research attachment programme related to tropical ecology.

Local universities, research culture and start-up activities still weak

Malaysia lacks innovation hotspots to propel the development of homegrown technology, despite huge investments over the years to create such centres like Cyberjaya and Iskandar

How to start-up:
1. require strong political commitment from the Government
2. raising the quality of education and continuously developed
3. a generous research funding policy
4. a key ingredient to have centres of basic and applied research that could generate surplus ideas and entrepreneurial talents to commercialise them
5. involvement of top-class universities, research institutes or firms with major and diversified research activities
6. concept of open, amenity-rich, affordable and with high connectivity
7. innovation hotspot grew from “the bottom up” without too much direct involvement from the government
8. new culture of open to new ideas and highly supportive of technological changes,
9. develop leaderships by strengthening the seniours and generate new one
10. globalisation in thinking, culture, leadership and governence for research and innovation
11. have a rich source of technological findings and entrepreneurship to convert some of these findings into commercial innovations

Even we have all above, an innovation hotspot can be created and probably will take five to 10 years to achieve. Good planning and strategies needed.

Russian mathematician rejects $1 million prize

This undated file photo released by the International Mathematician Congress shows Grigory Perelman. On March 18, 2010, the Clay Mathematics Institute AP
By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer Thu Jul 1, 12:13 pm ET

NEW YORK – He said nyet to $1 million.

Grigory Perelman, a reclusive Russian mathematics genius who made headlines earlier this year for not immediately embracing a lucrative math prize, has decided to decline the cash.

Perelman's decision was announced Thursday by the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Mass., which had awarded Perelman its Millennium Prize.

The award honors his solving of the Poincare (pwan-kah-RAY) conjecture, which deals with shapes that exist in four or more dimensions.

Jim Carlson, institute president, said Perelman's decision was not a complete surprise, since he had declined some previous math prizes.

Carlson said Perelman had told him by telephone last week of his decision and gave no reason. But the Interfax news agency quoted Perelman as saying he believed the prize was unfair. Perelman told Interfax he considered his contribution to solving the Poincare conjecture no greater than that of Columbia University mathematician Richard Hamilton.

"To put it short, the main reason is my disagreement with the organized mathematical community," Perelman, 43, told Interfax. "I don't like their decisions, I consider them unjust."

Attempts by The Associated Press to reach Perelman, a resident of St. Petersburg, were unsuccessful.

Carlson said institute officials will meet this fall to decide what to do with the prize money. "We have some ideas in mind," he said. "We want to consider that carefully and make the best use possible of the money for the benefit of mathematics."

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Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First
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